Dan Rather Quotes

Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.

I think seizing the opportunity and making the most of your time is very important, and loving life.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.

I'm going to take full advantage of whatever time I've got on this earth. I'm going to get my money's worth. You can bet your butt on that.

I want to live life, not just spend it.

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.

I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

When I did play, I tried to make the most of it.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.

I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Life's too short to just breeze on by.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.

I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all the things I wanted to do if I had several lifetimes to do them in.

This whole thing about, 'Take it easy, you had a heart attack, you might die,' I don't have time to take it easy. I might go at any point now. So, I want to get as much done as I can!

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.